Fare-box



(No Model.) v J. F. GOUDRIDGB. Y

FARBBOX. Y

Patented Mar. 4,1884.,V

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FARE-Box.

SPECIFICATION-farming part ofi-Letters Patent No. 294,462,1aated March 4,1884,

Y Y Application tiled June 14, 1883. (No model.) l

Be it known that 1,'JAMns F. GoonRIDGET, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and StateA of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fare-Boxes, of which the following isa specification.

My invention lrelates to improvements in fare-registers in which an alarm is sounded only when a ticket is passed into the box.

The object of my invention is to so arrange` the ticket-feeding and alarm mechanism that the motion of the actuating-handle will cause to be fed in, without fail, tickets varying in width and length to any extent required for fares, checks, 'and transfers, and whether such tickets be presented endwise or sidewise, and so that the ticket in its passage must remove an impediment to the alarm, so as to allow it to be sounded: To attain this object I have provided a stop arranged to catch the hainmer before it reaches the bell, which stop is removed by the `ticket as' it passes, in and allows the hammer to strike the bell, and have provided a feed-roll having its circumference longer than the longest ticket to be inserted, and so connected with an actuating -handle that each movement of this handle will cause the feed-roll to make one complete revolution, will sound an alarm and register if a ticket is inserted, and will register but not sound an alarm if a ticket is not inserted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation, showing the arrangement of the mechanism in the box. Fig. '2 'is an end view of the mechanism, the side of the box andthe handle being removed. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the feed-roll with ticket-guiding and alarm-controlling devices; and Fig. 4 is a side view ofthe upper end of the box, showing the actuating-handle and its stops of my improved fare-box. p

A is the feed-roll, provided with points for giving a positive grip to the ticket. These pointspass between guide-wires a, secured at the ends to cross-bars in the box B, and passing under the feed-roll A, in grooves therein, to prevent the ticket from adheringto the roll. Instead of an elastic bearing-roll, I use a plate, C, slotted to allow the points on the roll A to pass. This plate C is secured to the box B' by means of the edge of its lower part, c, which is bent back for that purpose. This makes the upper part of the plate C a spring capable of readily yielding to accommodate tickets of different thicknesses. The diameter of the feed-roll is such that its circumference will be longer than the longest strip or ticket ever required to be passed into the box B. The feed-roll is vdriven by means of a gearwheel, D, which meshes with a pinion, a', secured to the shaft of the feed-roll A. vThe teeth of the gear-wheel D are so proportioned to those of the pinion a that a partial revolution (in this instance one-fifth of a revolution) of the wheel D will cause an entire revolution of the feed-roll A. The wheel D is actuated by a handle, d, carrying a pawl, d', which engages with the teeth of a ratchetwheel, d2, fastto the same shaft that the wheel D is fast to. The stroke of the handle is limited by stops d3 d, so that it will turn the ratchet-wheel d2, and consequently the wheel D, one-fifth of a revolution at each stroke. A sprin g, d5, 4returns the handle cl, when released, to-its proper position, and during this return the pawl cl engages with a tooth of the ratchet-wheel d2 and causes it to make its partial revolution. Pins d6, properly placed, project from the wheel D, so that at each motion of the handle d one of the pins d must actuate the alarm-hammer H, and another of the pins d any Well-known registering device properly secured to the box. The alarm-hammer H bears against a stop, h, which prevents it from striking the bell, so that unless the stop 7L be removed the hammer H may be struck by a pin in its passage without sounding an alarm, although the registering device will record and show every movement of the bellhammer. A lever, h', controls the stop h. Its

.fulcruln is a rod, h2, niounted loosely, and provided with arms h3, located in the path of the tickets, so that on the passage of a ticket the arms h3 will be depressed and the lever h will be so moved as to release the stop h at the time that one of the pins d6 moves the alarmhammer H, and thereby allowl an alarm to be sounded, thus indicating that a ticket or its In a fare b0x, the combination, with the ticket feed-roll and its actuating mechanism, of an alarm, a stop to prevent the alarm from 15 sounding, and means, substantially as described, by which the passage of a ticket will remove thc stop and allow the alarm to sound, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES F. GOODRIDGE.

equivalent has been put into the box. y l this arral'lgenlentfrandiseffectuallyprevented, since the fare-taker must sound an alarm or receipt every fare, and this can be clone only by moving the handle d from stop d to stop d, and letting it go when a ticket or the like is inserted to remove by its passage the stop from the alarm-hammer. Should the fare-taker remove the stop by any other means than the g passage of a ticket at each alarm, there will l still be registered against him a fare.

I claim as my inventionlVitncsses:

W. A. COPBLAND, J. R. SNOW. 

